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Digital Migration Infrastructures
Digitalisation has fundamentally shaped the way people migrate. On the one hand, refugees rely on digital services to navigate, access information,...
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Infrastructures of Migrant (Im)mobilities in the Borderland of Burkina Faso and Niger
Externalized “migration management” in West Africa involves different infrastructures of monitoring, control, and blockage of mobility. By taking the...
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Migration Infrastructures: How Do People Migrate?
Migration research primarily studies who migrates and the processes after their arrival. Less attention is paid to the processes between departure...
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Migration infrastructures and the production of migrants’ irregularity in Japan and the United Kingdom
The article examines the migration infrastructures and pathways through which migrants move into, through and out of irregular status in Japan and...
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The effect of war on basic infrastructures of Eastern Tigray, Ethiopia
The aim of this study was to assess the impact of the war on basic infrastructure damage in the Eastern Tigray Zone. The study used both quantitative...
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The Entangled Infrastructures of International Student Migration: Lessons from Covid-19
The impact of Covid-19 on international student mobility has been noted by policy makers and the media ever since the global lockdowns started in...
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“I have come to this Country to be happy”: Homonationalism as Infrastructure of post-Soviet Queer Migration to the United States
Fleeing increased state-sponsored homo- and transphobia in their countries of origin, post-Soviet LGBTQ persons often seek political asylum in the...
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Migration and Cities: An Introduction
This chapter introduces the empirical context and analytical framework within which the volume is inscribed. We discuss how urbanisation processes...
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Infrastructures, Linkages, and Livelihoods
This section presents infrastructures as a matter of anthropological concern and argues that attention to infrastructuring—that is, the processes...
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The “ASEAN Way” in Migration Governance
Migration governance in Asia is intriguing as, on the one hand, many Asian states have refused to be part of international migration conventions, but...
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De-migranticizing as methodology: rethinking migration studies through immobility and liminality
De-migranticization is becoming a core strategy for overcoming the fetishization of migrants in migration studies. However, this shift in...
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Speculative Futures of Global South Infrastructures
This chapter presents infrastructural issues from select Future Fictions within contemporary transmedial Futurisms from the Global South. It...
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Introduction to Migration Studies An Interactive Guide to the Literatures on Migration and Diversity
This open access textbook provides an introduction to theories, concepts and methodological approaches concerning various facets of migration and...
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Searching for migration: estimating Japanese migration to Europe with Google Trends data
In recent research, Google Trends data has been identified as a potentially useful data source to complement or even replace otherwise traditional...
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Maria Rye and Hegemonic Femininity: Case Study of a Victorian Migration Broker
Maria Susan Rye (1829–1903) was the founder of the Female Emigration Society in Victorian Britain. A charismatic women’s migration organiser, she...
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Inter-regional Migration in the Global South: Chinese Migrants in Ghana
While the migration of Chinese people to Africa dates back to the 1960s, it has increased significantly in the last two decades. Despite growing...
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Transformative Approaches to Gender, Migration, and Development
This chapter lays the groundwork for examining the complex relationships between the concepts of migration, gender, and development. I highlight the...
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Overcoming and Reproducing Inequalities: Mediated Migration in the “Global South”
In many societies, it is not possible to migrate without the assistance of one or more intermediaries, including friends, family, recruiters, travel...
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Onward Migration and Transnationalism: What Are the Interconnections?
This introductory chapter sets the scene for the book. It defines onward migration as a migration trajectory that involves extended stays in two or...
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Spatial distribution of strategic service infrastructures that favour quality of life (QOL) in the Greater Dhaka Region (GDR), Bangladesh
This paper illustrates the spatial distribution pattern of the basic services infrastructures in the Greater Dhaka Region (GDR), Bangladesh that...
